Arab world

Why pro-Israel educators should teach the Nakba - opinion

Students who learn this version of 1948 develop both moral imagination and intellectual resilience.

ISRAELI RIGHT-WING activists demonstrate next to Arab Israeli and left-wing activist students during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba at Tel Aviv University, in May 2026.
Israeli soldiers driving a tank pass a line of waving civilians on the side of a road while advancing into Syria during the Six Day War, June 1967.

Six Day War: When Israel moved from survival to revival - opinion

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

The moment for a Saudi peace initiative has arrived, but on new terms - opinion

Protest against the rise in West Bank settler violence at Habima square in Tel Aviv, April 16, 2026.

Future Israel (Part III): Addressing societal challenges - opinion


Why do citizens in authoritarian Arab countries hate Israeli Jews? - opinion

I will answer through my personal experience when I was in Egypt. This is the same experience of millions of others - yes, millions.

 PHILADELPHI CORRIDOR view, between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, seen July 15.

A new Middle East is still far off – opinion

Israel will have to live by its sword for many long years ahead.

Saddam Hussein is filmed in footage released after his capture in 2003. Even the decisive American victory over the Iraqi leader did little to alter the domestic or international politics of the Middle East, the writer notes.

From a think tank to a ‘do tank’: The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs changed name and mission

JCFA initiated proactive 'do' tank, forging alliances with Arab nations and countering disinformation to reshape regional views on Israel's role in security and prosperity.

 Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA)

Harris targets Arab voters with new ad highlighting Gaza 'suffering' - report

The ad begins with Harris's declaration that "she will not be silent about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians."

 Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gestures as she addresses the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 47th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington U.S., September 18, 2024.

The international community has forgotten Sudan

Behind the Lines - The international community seems largely indifferent to the 15-month war in Sudan that has seen thousands of casualties and millions of displaced people

 NOT GAZA – a view of damage to a street in Omdurman, Sudan as a result of the civil war, in April.

The West needs to choose appeasement or the defeat of evil in the Middle East - opinion

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis care not about the cause of the Palestinian people. They are directed by their rogue state, which sponsors their mission to undermine any prospects of peace.

 THE WRITER, then-MP for Bury South and serving as a member of the shadow cabinet, meets with President Isaac Herzog, when he was opposition leader and chairman of the Labor Party, at the House of Commons in 2015.

Egyptian court extended detention of two Israelis in Taba hotel brawl

Two cousins from Nazareth were given extended detention in Egypt after a hotel brawl in Taba, as injuries mount and families plead for help from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

 Military personnel stand guard on the day of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023.

Media in Israel stands in stark contrast to media in the Arab world - opinion

In the Middle East, press freedom is rare—except in Israel. Explore the irony behind media censorship.

 A VIDEO released last month by Yemen’s Houthis shows what they say is smoke rising from a fire aboard a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea. Says the writer: No one in the Saudi media would question why Riyadh isn’t cooperating in confronting Houthi attacks. (Houthi Military Media/Reuters)

'Nasrallah the chicken hunter': Arab world mocks Hezbollah over foiled attack

‘The Chicken Massacre was carried with premeditation and deliberation,’ added one user ironically.

 A poster showing Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah seen with photos of Israeli chickens (illustrative)

Meet Ella Waweya, the IDF's top Muslim woman, speaking out to the Arab world - exclusive

‘Captain Ella’ tells the ‘Magazine’ about her work as IDF spokesperson to the Arab world.

Maj. Ella Waweya, the new Arabic language spokesperson, pictured on July 7, 2024.